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1901 Population Density, Map of British Indian Empire, 1909, showing the population density in 1901.

Map "Population Density of the British Indian Empire, 1909" from the Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford University Press, 1909.

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Viceroy Lord Mountbatten of Burma with a countdown calendar to the Transfer of Power in the background

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Photograph. Train to Pakistan, Delhi Railway Station. Margaret Bourke-White. 1947.

"Millions left for their promised new homeland with smiles on their faces as trains left both India and Pakistan.

This is a train to Pakistan being given a warm send-off."

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